FFmpeg 2.6 also has a new decoder for closed captions support, many new filters were added, the libmpcodecs wrapper was eliminated, and various other changes. FFmpeg 2.6 also has improvements to the VP9 decoder performance for x86 32-bit systems and pre-SSE3 CPUs. While VP9 is great for free media, there's also been more HEVC/H.265 work within the FFmpeg camp.

More details on FFmpeg 2.6, which is codenamed "Grothendieck", can be found via the project's release notes.

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